2007 Student Writing and Fine Arts Awards

Phi Kappa Phi Student Writing and Fine Arts
Winners for 2007

Fine Arts Awards:

Benjamin Taylor
Music Composition Major (Senior)
Faculty Nominator: Christian Asplund
Click here to listen to an excerpt of the work.
"Concerto por Trombonite"
Performed at BYU on November 27th 2007 at the Synthesis concert under the direction of Ray Smith
Featuring Jay Roberts on the Trombone

Kristen Jeppsen
Dancer, Teacher, Performer
Dance Choreography: Senior Project
Dancer in performance companies: Dancer’s Company and Kinnect
Nominator: Pam Musil

Paper Competition Awards
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   Freshmen

1st place: Amanda Fujiki, "The Internment of Japanese Americans in World War II: An Attack on Japanese American Families"
  Nominator: Susan Jorgensen, Honors Program
2nd place: Rachel Moon, "Franklin the Diplomat: The Most Dangerous Man in the World"
  Nominator: Allen Christenson, Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature

   Sophomores

1st place: Kelsey Ballif, "The Last Dead End: Where Does the Emphasis Fall?"
  Nominator: Claudia Harris, Department of English
2nd place: Rachel Ebeling, "Femininity in Narnia"
  Nominator: Bruce Young, Department of English

   Juniors

1st place: Christopher Palmer, "An Analysis of the Impact of Higher Education on Likelihood of Employment in Armenia"
  Nominator: James McDonald, Department of Economics
2nd place: Carl Brinton, "MacroecoHomeics: How Household Satellite Accounts Can Put the ‘Home’ Back into Economics"
  Nominator: Valerie Hudson, Department of Political Science

   Seniors

1st place: David Nielsen, "Canonical vs. Apocryphal Scribal Habits: The Shepherd of Hermas as a Case Study"
  Nominator: Thomas Wayment, Department of Ancient Scripture
2nd place: Justin White, "Dante among the Prophets"
  Nominator: Madison Sowell, Department of French and Italian

   Honorable Mention

Brandon Baird
Erica Burgin
Benjamin King
Brittany McBride
Katie Pulsipher
Cameron Warner